[FRIAM] Octave and SciPy

[Russell Standish]

I've used Octave from time to time. It is handy to be able to suck in
some data and perform a FFT on it for example.

For those of you used to Matlab, its a pretty good clone. Just minor
difference that are more of an annoyance than anything else. Octave's
advantage is price (being free) and 64 bit support (if you have a 16GB
computer, you can manipulate up to around 10GB matrices in
practice). By contrast, Matlab is limited to around 1GB matrices.

The disadvantage is that virtually none of the Matlab toolboxes are
supported on Octave.

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:36:56PM -0600, Owen Densmore wrote:
> I've recently installed these critters on my Mac.  The usual  
> annoyances getting them going but minor difficulties all in all.
> 
> So both are now on the air and thus it occurred to me to ask if  
> anyone here uses them, and what their experiences are.
> 
>      -- Owen
> 
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